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Slimebeast on 02 February 2010
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twesterm said:
Slimebeast said:
twesterm said:

Well I finished the game last night and hot damn it was amazing!  Even though I have Mass Effect 2 I still want to play through Mass Effect again!  I actually cared about the characters and the decisions in that game got pretty tough (though the Kaiden Ashley decision wasn't hard since I didn't like either of them)!  It got to the part where I to save the council and I was just like crap what do I do! (I focused on the Soveriegn) and then you even have to pick the new human council chairmen.

Great read. But it sounds like you weren't very engaged the first time around playing Mass Effect but now you were enthusiastic. How come? It's because you now had heard how your decisions would carry over to ME2?

I have a bad habit of putting down games and not picking them back up.

Some things that lead to me putting down a game can be bugs, crappy framerate and other presentation issues, not fun, and super long (longer than 12 hours).  Mass Effect hits the bugs, framerate, and super long points so I'm not surprised I never finished it until now.

I loved the story and decisions (though I didn't get to a point where I had never made a tough decision, I never beat more than two of the opening two worlds so never got to Virmire), I just put the game down and never picked it up.  I've actually started two or three other times trying to finish it so I had actually played each of the opening three worlds at least once.

Along those lines, it was kind of annoying because I went to Virmire right away since I had never played it and I wish I had saved that for my fourth world instead of the Arachni world.  Virmire was just insane and awesome and it kind of sucked to go from that to the Arachni world that I had already played twice before before going to the end of the game.  It kind of threw my pacing off a little.

Interesting. Now, this time u played on easy and I assume skipped many/all side quests? How many hours did it take to complete?